Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) has been a long-standing field to answer questions based on knowledge bases. Recently, the evolving dynamics of knowledge have attracted a growing interest in Temporal Knowledge Graph Question Answering (TKGQA), an emerging task to answer temporal questions. However, this field grapples with ambiguities in defining temporal questions and lacks a systematic categorization of existing methods for TKGQA. In response, this paper provides a thorough survey from two perspectives: the taxonomy of temporal questions and the methodological categorization for TKGQA. Specifically, we first establish a detailed taxonomy of temporal questions engaged in prior studies. Subsequently, we provide a comprehensive review of TKGQA techniques of two categories: semantic parsing-based and TKG embedding-based. Building on this review, the paper outlines potential research directions aimed at advancing the field of TKGQA. This work aims to serve as a comprehensive reference for TKGQA and to stimulate further research.
@article{arxiv.2406.14191,
title = {Temporal Knowledge Graph Question Answering: A Survey},
author = {Miao Su and Zixuan Li and Zhuo Chen and Long Bai and Xiaolong Jin and Jiafeng Guo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.14191},
year = {2026}
}
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8 pages, 3 figures. This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication